Hi-tech and open defecation

Nigeria is truly a country of ridiculous contrasts, and no wonder it is now the poverty capital of the world, technically the poorest country of the world. Else, how does one explain the incredulity of President Muhammadu Buhari going over to Kaduna State, at the invitation of Governor Nasir el-Rufa’i as a campaign-boost strategy, in order to inaugurate an unmanned aerial vehicle surveillance facility whereas the outer perimeter walls guarding the complex housing this hi-tech facility are also the perimeter walls for locals who wish to do open defecation even in broad daylight?

Anyone who doubts my position should visit the Kaduna-Zaria Road section in Kawo that runs parallel to the Air Force Base complex opposite the barracks housing the 1 Division Headquarters of the Nigerian Army.

How come the space between an Air Force Base bivouac and a Nigerian Army barracks where general-level ranked staff pass every single day is littered with human faeces and no one is doing anything to fix this situation? Is this one of those Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress strange philosophies of “loving the poor” so much that the poor-class is allowed to continue to wallow in abject poverty?

Sunday Adole Jonah

Department of Physics, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State:

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